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How a telemarket in South Korea allows the development of cannabis in Canada

06.03.2017

The increase in sales of cannabis products to South Korea will continue over the next few years. This allows not only to increase the area of ​​industrial crops of technical hemp, but also to diversify a significant number of risks arising from the possible resuscitation of cannabis cultivation in the United States in the coming years.

Earlier attention of our readers was already accentuated by the fact that in the search for new markets for their products, Canadian cannabisers are actively trying to expand their products from hemp raw materials to various economically developed countries of the world located on different continents. In September 2016, the situation was described where Canadian cannabis products, with the correct setting of the sales system, dramatically increased the consumption of hemp seeds in South Korea. Let's try in this publication to track the consequences of a significant increase in demand for the product line of hemp business in the largest producer of hemp in North America.

In 2017, the area of ​​industrial crops of technical cannabis in Canada is planned to significantly increase. According to Canadian experts, the area of ​​cultivation of low-cannabis cannabis may be about 61 thousand hectares, and a significant increase in the volume of hempseed produced is due, undoubtedly, several times exported to the countries of the Asia-Pacific region, primarily to South Korea.

In particular, the profit from operations with exports to South Korea of ​​hemp seeds increased in tens of times in 2016 compared to 2015 ($ 600,000) and amounted to a sum equivalent to $ 45 million. Such a dynamic of the rapid development of the Canadian hemp market is primarily due to the prevalence in South Korea of ​​telemarketing programs and the use of information provided by television on a wide range of the country's population for ongoing purchases. Among other things, at the moment, Koreans see in food products made using hemp seeds as a tasty, more nutritious and cheaper alternative to various kinds of fish and other protein seafood, widely represented in traditional Asian cuisine.

A sharp jump in the number of industrial crops of technical hemp can set a new record for the entire period of development of the Canadian cannabis cultivation of the 21st century. For example, in the record year of 2014, the area of ​​low-cannabis hemp crops in Canada amounted to 42.5 thousand hectares. However, not even this indicator is the most interesting in the development of Canadian cannabis cultivation in 2017. Compared to 2014, when the area of ​​crops in Canada, exclusively for food, was about 20,000 hectares, in 2017 it was the land occupied by the seed that nearly tripled. In 2016 Canadian cannabisers once again faced the problem of overproduction of hemp raw materials in the country and, accordingly, stagnation of the product line of the hemp products market. This kind of problem arose due to the fact that Canadian agricultural producers were able to significantly increase the yield of their low-malt hemp. Over the past few years, the productivity of technical cannabis in Canada has jumped 1.5-2 times and from 670 to 900 kg per hectare has reached 1,200 kg or more.

According to experts of the Canadian hemp market, the growth in sales of cannabis products to South Korea will continue over the next few years. This allows not only to increase the area of ​​industrial crops of technical hemp, but also to diversify a significant number of risks arising from the possible resuscitation of cannabis cultivation in the United States in the coming years. It was in this country until recently that the lion's share of hemp products and raw materials grown and produced in Canada left.